Ere long done do does did

Toe,
I am sorry to be away for so long. I have many excuses. I won't bore you with them, because they are all pretty dull.

It's been an OK, week, with a crappy little note at the end from one of my clients. It put me in a bad mood, so I am drinking some beer now. I think the alcohol is having a depressing effect, because I just feel like putting my head down on the table and sighing.

Anyway, this too will pass.

Hope you are well. From the most recent posts, it sounds like you've been busy with more interesting stuff than I can report--judo? Dude. That sounds quite hardcore. I actually just remembered--I had a dream about you last night, in which you and I got together in the future. You were older looking, with close-cropped hair (back to your choppy look maybe), with some gray in it. You also looked like you had bulked up a lot, and were a lot more muscular, and you had this air about you like you could kill someone with your hands. Maybe the dream was influenced by your recent judo.

I can't remember anything else about the dream. I think we may have been having a drink, which seems pretty realistic.

Anyway, I've been gardening, cooking, doing home improvement stuff, and working my ass off generally. I'll give you a call soon.

Love,
E-Word

Goin' out west

E-word,

The sky is so big out west.

Love,

Toe

Louise, Louise if it's true, tell it to me.

E-word,

Sorry for the lack of updates, and the lack of reviewing your shorts. Somehow haven't been feeling things lately. Work has kept me busy, and I've picked up a new hobby- Judo. I take judo classes twice a week at a community center near work. It's pretty inexpensive($20 a month) because it's a non-profit, and it also has a ton of high level judokas. I have to admit that it is a little brutal starting this late- as a grown man, I'm not used to falling and being thrown around, or for that matter throwing anyone else, and my body definitely takes time to acclimate to the repeated abuse. I'm consistently covered in bruises lately, though that will diminish slightly once I get a gi.

I find myself pretty tired lately, because I have been exercising and working a lot, and in-between that and hanging out with El, I haven't spared the mental time to write or read or doing anything like that. It's kind of sad. It's hard for me to get through the first few pages of any book I want to read; I even have difficulty watching television, because my attention span has shortened so much.

Anyway, I hope it's just a passing thing. Thanks for posting that photo of le Grand Canyon. I can't believe we were there either, and I'm glad you had your camera, otherwise I might not have remembered Marble Canyon. Man, we saw some beautiful things. I suddenly remember driving through fields of desert sage after a rain storm. Was that real? Did that really happen?

Love,

Toe